Not sure what is going on, but the site keeps failing over the last couple of days. I have the server guys and my developer looking into it.
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In case most of you have not noticed, I made changes to the donation amounts as well as the durations for all of the paid membership levels. Things are winding down here, and this seems to be the most prudent way to deal with the "end of life" period of this site.
Contributor level members - $10 per 30 days
Sponsors - Eliminated
Benefactor level members - $25 per 30 days
Endowment level members - $50 per 30 days
On July 1, 2027, all paid memberships will be closed.
On August 1, 2027, FaunaClassifieds will be terminated.
Only change I expect that might take place is when I can get around to figuring out when the amount of money I would have to refund for the yearly paid memberships becomes less than the monthly expense of leasing my server, THAT date might be the termination date for the site.
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Responding to email notices you receive.
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In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.
Site failures - 06/09/2025
- Thread starter WebSlave
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I am glad to see it seems to be resolved for the moment.
It works now... until it doesn't. Logging out and in didn't help yesterday. Today is better.
Yeah, comes and goes. Not sure yet what the problem is. My developer has been working on it and said the site was being flooded with bots. But I don't believe that would (or should) cause a hard failure on the site. Slowness, yes, but to have it just fall flat on it's face should not be a result of too much bogus traffic. IMHO, of course.
I've whacked quite a few fake/fraudulent registration accounts in the past few days. Usually it's 2-3 a week but it seems to have ramped up. Either I touched a nerve or it's just your site's turn to be targeted.